Atari STF

[TeX38]

Hi all,

I began my Atari trip during the 80's with a big break until about a year ago when I discovered emulators.
I was lucky?? enough to get hold of an old Atari 520 STF that is working in Hi res but I do not have a monitor so can't use Low/Med res.

I purchased the correct modulator for it but it still refuses to display.

Seeing as it was an STF I assumed I would only need to remove a few components to allow the modulator to solder into its place and have done that but sadly still no picture.

Have I missed something, is there anything else I need to do/Remove, jumpers required??

There is a resistor looking thing soldered across the 13pin socket area on the back of the board, is this something that will prevent it working and should I remove it or move it??

I hope someone can help with this as I'm looking forward to getting my ST up and going.

Thanks.

TerryM

[exxos]

Why not just use a RGB to scart lead ? I use one for my 15" LCD TV and works perfectly well.

[TeX38]

Thank you for your reply, Sadly I don't have a TV with scart.

[grobda]

some monitors will accept a 15khz (low/med res) RGB signal via the 15-pin VGA connector (I have an acer that does) - it will display low/med or high res depending on how the cable is wired.

[spiny]

Hi all,

I began my Atari trip during the 80's with a big break until about a year ago when I discovered emulators.
I was lucky?? enough to get hold of an old Atari 520 STF that is working in Hi res but I do not have a monitor so can't use Low/Med res.

I purchased the correct modulator for it but it still refuses to display.

Seeing as it was an STF I assumed I would only need to remove a few components to allow the modulator to solder into its place and have done that but sadly still no picture.

Have I missed something, is there anything else I need to do/Remove, jumpers required??

There is a resistor looking thing soldered across the 13pin socket area on the back of the board, is this something that will prevent it working and should I remove it or move it??

I hope someone can help with this as I'm looking forward to getting my ST up and going.

Thanks.

TerryM

some photos might help.

[siriushardware]

There was a similar thread recently in which someone had bought what appeared to be an STFM, but actually had an STF PCB into which a modulator had been retrofitted. To cut a long story short, it didn't work because in a non-'M' machine there are more components missing than just the modulator.

The components you removed to fit the modulator were probably those which are fitted, on a non-'M' ST only, to generate the composite sync signal for the monitor output socket. To use the machine with RGB output (which is always the better option anyway) you will need to remove the modulator and reinstate those removed components, otherwise you have no composite sync signal on the monitor output socket.

Unfortunately just fitting the modulator is not enough to make the machine into an STFM, because the components for the colour clock oscillator were also never fitted in a non-'M' machine. See this thread, in particular post #10 of that that thread, for more details:-

http://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.ph ... 09#p289609